Another Boko Haram attack in Borno, 13 killed

An overnight attack by Boko Haram at Gajigana ,Borno State , killed at least 13 people, a security officer said yesterday.

The attackers stormed the town, 45 kilometres north of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno late Wednesday and raided the town till early Thursday, the security officer said on the condition of anonymity, Xinhua reported.

“They set fire to houses and this forced people to flee the town,” the source said, noting that the insurgents shot sporadically on the fleeing residents.

A survivor said that the heavily-armed attackers invaded their town in open vans, adding that children and women were part of the casualties.

“More corpses may still be lying undiscovered in the surrounding bushes, and some burned houses. Many others were injured,” the fleeing resident said.